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General Fusion, a Canadian nuclear fusion energy startup, announced today that it had been thrown a lifeline in the form of $22 million in fresh funding. The company had laid off at least 25% of its employees in May in a bid to shore up its stretched finances. At the same time, CEO Greg Twinney wrote an open letter pleading for funding. The additional cash will give General Fusion some breathing room, though not much. A subset of General Fusion’s existing investors ultimately ponied up for what the Globe and Mail reports was a “pay to play” round — a…

Philippa RoxbyHealth reporterGetty ImagesTreatment for millions of people with type 2 diabetes should be more personalised, with greater access to newer medicines, including weight-loss drugs, the healthcare assessment body for England, Wales and Northern Ireland has recommended.It calls the move “the biggest shake-up” in type 2 diabetes care in a decade.Offering more people the new drugs will prevent complications such as heart disease, strokes and kidney damage, reduce costs to the NHS and potentially save lives, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says. Around 4.6 million people in the UK are diagnosed with diabetes – of these…

Millie Bobby Brown has announced she and husband Jake Bongiovi have adopted a baby daughter.The 21-year-old star of Stranger Things and Enola Holmes posted a message on Instagram saying: “This summer, we welcomed our sweet baby girl through adoption.”We are beyond excited to embark on this beautiful next chapter of parenthood in both peace and privacy.”It ended: “And then there were 3. Love, Millie and Jake Bongiovi.” The couple didn’t reveal the name of their new addition.The news comes 15 months after the actress married Bongiovi, the 23-year-old son of rock singer Jon Bon Jovi.At the end of last year,…

Violence has marred the second leg of the Copa Sudamericana round of 16 clash between Independiente and Universidad de Chile as shocking scenes were witnessed at the stadium in Buenos Aires on a tragic night for the sport. The match had to be interrupted in the second half of play due to an outbreak of fan violence before being abandoned, with two fans stabbed and one has life-threatening injuries, according to multiple reports.Dozens of fans were taken to a local hospital, and many were in serious condition, according to TyC Sports. One fan could be seen falling from the top…

The latest addition to China’s Tiangong space station is an AI chatbot with expertise in navigation and tactical planning. Named Wukong AI—after the protagonist of the “Monkey King” legend in Chinese mythology, Sun Wukong—the chatbot was introduced on the space station in mid-July, and has already completed its first mission: supporting three taikonauts during a spacewalk.Information about Wukong AI remains limited. Chinese authorities have said that they developed it from a domestic open-source AI model; according to Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, engineers designed it to meet the requirements of manned space missions, and focused its knowledge-base on aerospace flight…

Newcastle rejected the Merseyside club’s offer for the Swedish international, but Liverpool don’t appear to have given up.Liverpool boss Arne Slot said on Thursday the Premier League champions will only sign the right player for the right price, but refused to be drawn on the club’s position regarding unsettled Newcastle striker Alexander Isak.Since Liverpool’s reported 110-million-pound ($148m) bid for the 25-year-old Sweden international was rejected earlier this month, they have not held further talks, but equally do not appear to have given up hope of bringing Isak to Anfield.Newcastle, for their part, are reported to be demanding a British record…

Delta Air Lines and United Airlines are being sued by a group of passengers who claim they paid extra money to sit in “window” seats which were not actually next to windows.Proposed class actions were filed against United in San Francisco federal court and against Delta in Brooklyn, New York, federal court, seeking millions of dollars in damages for more than 1 million passengers at each airline.The complaints say some Boeing 737, Boeing 757 and Airbus A321 planes contain seats that would normally be next to windows, but lack them because of the placement of air conditioning ducts, electrical conduits…

The first thing I did when I got my hands on the Xbox Ally was reboot it. I wanted to see exactly how Microsoft manages to hide Windows beneath the Xbox interface that’s debuting on these handheld devices.After a short startup, I was met with the standard Windows login prompt. But I could use the controller to input the PIN code, an immediate improvement over what’s available right now. And as soon as Windows 11 loaded up, the interface immediately disappeared. The Xbox PC app took over and went full-screen — and for the most part, I didn’t have to…

Earlier this month, my Spurs WhatsApp group was debating whether, if you could only have one, you’d sign Eberechi Eze or Savinho. Ever the ray of sunshine, I confessed that my “gut feeling” was that we wouldn’t get either. A few days later, I doubled down.Despite reports suggesting Eze was practically on the 149 bus headed for N17, I had the nagging sense that Arsenal might gazump us at the last minute. The reason for such a grim forecast was that I’d seen this tragi-comic movie before. Spurs have “nearly” signed everyone from Jean-Pierre Papin to Eden Hazard to Rivaldo,…

My friend Michael Waldman, who has died aged 83, was a palaeontologist and an inspiring teacher of geology. He discovered one of the most productive and important fossil sites in Scotland, and named several new species of extinct animals.Mike discovered the fossil site in 1971, during a Duke of Edinburgh school trip that he was co-leading to Skye. There, near the village of Elgol, he found the first mammal fossil from the time of dinosaurs in Scotland, named Borealestes serendipitus, “the northern rogue found by serendipity”. On subsequent trips, he and colleagues discovered fossil skeletons of fish, salamanders, lizards, turtles…